US Patent Issued to Sharp on Aug. 25 for "Image forming device that determines when to fill toner for forming images" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,253, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai City, Japan).

"Image forming device that determines when to fill toner for forming images" was invented by Motoyuki Itoyama (Sakai City, Japan), Masayasu Narimatsu (Sakai City, Japan) and Shohei Fukumoto (Sakai City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forming device forms an image using toner contained in an attached cartridge, and includes: a development unit that forms a toner image on a photoreceptor drum; a conveyor that receives the toner from the cartridge and conveys the toner to the development unit; a toner sensor that detects the amount of toner stored in ...